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Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI

Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.

2025-02-11T16:00:00-0800 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-12T15:26:07-0800 - sethherr

Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22

YJIT’s ability to improve performance by adapting to run-time behavior can increase the speed of our code in a way that dropping down to C can’t. As such, I think we should reconsider the common wisdom that “rewriting our Ruby in C” is the ideal path to performance optimization and take a serious look at “rewriting our C in Ruby” instead.

2023-08-28T17:00:00-0700 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-12T21:06:10-0800 - sethherr